A Wisconsin man who became lodged in the windshield of a car that struck him said he turned to the driver and said, “Hello, I’m the guy you hit on the bicycle.”

The driver did not respond, but continued on, running a stop sign and hitting another vehicle before he arrived home, the cyclist, Steven Gove, told HTR Media about the Saturday incident (http://htrne.ws/1bI58jh ).

The man finally noticed Gove when he stopped the car outside his home.

“He looked at me and said ‘Who are you? What are you doing in the car?'” Gove said. “He started freaking out: ‘I’m going to jail, I’m going to jail.'”

The man then locked the car doors and went into his home. Gove, whose body had gone most of the way through the windshield, then pulled his knees and feet into the car.

“I righted myself and got out,” he said. “I unlocked the passenger’s side door and started walking down the street.”

[New York City’s bike share] program, unlike those of some cold-weather counterparts, remains open all year. And in the throes of an especially unforgiving winter, the system is confronting perhaps its greatest test yet: negotiating the expected nose dive in ridership, scrambling to protect its stock from storms and showing that a program powered in large measure by novice cyclists can endure a season of black ice and face-whipping wind.

What has emerged is something of an urban survival sport, the ranks thinning but never disappearing as the temperature dips.

On peak days in the summer and fall, cyclists took more than 40,000 rides. Of those, about one-fifth typically used 24-hour or seven-day passes — popular options for tourists. From Jan. 1 to Jan. 26, the system averaged about 9,600 riders per day, with a vast majority being regular die-hards.

“Cyclist Edward Hoey claims he was making a left turn in downtown Vancouver when the motorist behind him started honking his horn and yelling at him about not being in the bike lane, reported CBC News.

Hoey claims the man was trying to swerve into him, causing him to crash onto the sidewalk. When he approached the driver, Hoey says the man pulled his hand into the car. When Hoey managed to free his hand, he pulled some papers out from the passenger side seat and scattered them on the sidewalk, reported CBC.”

I know we’re all the-bicyclist-can-do-no-wrong here, but which scenario sounds more likely:
1) Bicyclist is mad, approaches passenger side of car, reaches in, pulls some stuff out, scatters it.
2) Bicyclist approaches car for reasonable conversation, infuriated motorist reaches across to bicyclist at passenger side window, grabs bicyclist’s hand and pulls it in car, somehow bicyclist’s hand becomes engaged with papers in motorist’s car, bicyclist pulls hand back while still engaged with papers, bicyclist finally manages to free hand from papers sticking to hand, scattering them on the street.

“Hoey alleged that, after he put his hand on the car, the driver pulled his hand through the open passenger-side window and tried to injure his wrist. As he pulled his hand out of the car, Hoey tossed some papers on the passenger seat onto the sidewalk.”

“He turned around to investigate and found a 21-year-[old] bike rider that had been struck,” wrote Senior Fire Communication Supervisor David Paschke. “Both the victim and bike may have never been located for several hours or until this lone riders family/friends reported him missing, as he had been flipped over the guardrail into the brush.”

I don’t know if this story was posted here earlier. It has a bit too familiar of a ring to it – cyclist gets hit by drunk driver who leaves him for dead. In this case, the driver drove 2 miles with the cyclist stuck in the rear window, then tossed him into the woods behind a dumpster.

I just had the above letter recirculate back to me from an acquaintance (who doesn’t have anything to do with biking!) by way of a friend of his from Michigan. Viral doesn’t begin to describe this. That dude is getting roasted.

“He told me about a new commuting contest here between a car, public transportation, a motorcycle and a bicycle. He said they do it to show how fast the bike is. The bike always wins.

The Bicitekas aren’t saying Mexico City is cycling nirvana: They mark cycling deaths here by putting up “ghost bikes,” bike frames painted white, memorials for killed riders. Last year they built two — tragic, but still a very low number for a megacity. [21 million people in the metro area]

… You actually don’t need to pass an exam to get [an automobile] license in Mexico City; testing so was corrupt they did away with it.

… the City’s new bike lanes. The city now has nearly 40 miles of these lanes, half of which was implemented last year, and plans for more. Concrete dividers separate bikes from cars.

… the city’s bike infrastructure was modelled on Copenhagen, arguably the most bike-friendly city in the world.”